If you consider Javy's biggest plate discipline problem to be picking up sliders, those adjustments seem pretty shrewd. Clearly he's able to pick up curveball spin and punish it, and jumping on pitches less likely to be chase pitches makes it easier to find pitches he can drive.

The problem I have with Bote the launch angle enthusiast is that the narrative doesn't exactly track the results. They mention doing so last summer around the all-star break, but Bote was better earlier in the year. His Iowa performance is good(and he did improve his IsoP, although that's at least p...

I've been cowardly waiting for Bote to not kill the ball for a game to express a similar sentiment. He can have all the exit velocity he wants, I'm not going to feel one bit upset about any starts that Russell, Baez, Happ, or Zobrist get over him. They're better. Doesn't mean he's not potentially us...

Is this just a different way of saying sim game? https://twitter.com/mdgonzales/status/1026570957559918592?s=21 I could be wrong, but I think live bp is Darvish throwing his full repertoire to hitters without any sense of game state, while a sim game is throwing your repertoire to hitters and using...

it's just a little weird that this board has spent 4 months making fun of the small market brewers at every stop when they've played even with the cubs the entire season. we all make fun of brewerfan.net (as we should), but you could just as easily look at it from the other side and marvel at how c...

"They potentially got worse defensively at 2 IF spots" does not equal "they got worse as a team." Villar: .304 wOBA this year, .313 career Schoop: .306 wOBA this year, .320 career Trading for Villar for Schoop and moving him to SS is an objective downgrade, not just inefficient....

it gets the same "ahahah wow galaxy brain" jokes that all their other moves do, but nothing substantive. Everything the brewers have done since what, last trade deadline, get a bunch of "this won't work" jokes that everyone pretends counts as analysis. "Travis Shaw can't pl...

The Brewers using league-best defensive efficiency to take a rotation full of 5th starters to the top of the NL and then lighting it on fire to add a couple mediocre bats to their lineup sure is something.

Neil Huntington is my favorite of all the hedge fund GMs. I don't like Archer much as a trade target anymore(certainly not with Happ involved), but getting him out of the AL East and into PNC National Forest will help, and I don't think he was gonna do much better for a couple toolboxes like Glasnow...

Nice to see we are addressing our problem of too many mediocre pitchers by ... *checks notes* ... stockpiling more mediocre pitchers. Justin Wilson has a 32% K rate and a 3.10 ERA, with an ERA under 2.5 since his crummy April. He's the 5th best reliever in the pen, with none of the 4 above him bein...

This trade deadline screams "in the playoffs we're fine with the guys already on the team who will get 99% of the innings, we just need to bridge all the 4th-7th innings until then". I'm good with that, I just hope they're right about the health of Edwards and Morrow in particular to make ...

"We weren't sure we could afford to sign Justin to such a long deal" Epstein told reporters, "but then we saw how some guy in jeans came to a bunch of games in a row in July and knew we had to keep the rock of our bullpen in Cubbie blue."